Portrait of Georgia, No. 1, 1923

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Remarks

The Stieglitz Estate list identifies this photograph and Key Set numbers 921 and 922 as a series.

Stieglitz Collections

A corresponding print was given to the following institution(s) by Alfred Stieglitz during his lifetime, or was received or acquired from the estate:

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, YCAL MSS 85, box 122, folder 2454

George Eastman Museum, Rochester, 74:0052:0047

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 24.1723 (inscribed: Portrait—Georgia O’Keeffe / Photograph by / Alfred Stieglitz / New York / 1923 / Negative & print made by / Alfred Stieglitz / 1923 / Print 2 from this negative)

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 111.1984

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Ph-158

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 52.1818 (inscribed: 1922)

Other Collections

A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):

Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, P2004.4

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 93.XM.25.77

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, 2002.02

Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1997-38-6

Location unknown

Lifetime Exhibitions

A print from the same negative—perhaps a photograph from the Gallery’s collection—appeared in the following exhibition(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:

probably 1924, New York (no. 20, as Portrait—G.O.)
1930, Cambridge (no. 107, as Portrait of Georgia O’Keefe [sic], 1923)

Lifetime Publications

A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:

“We Nominate for the Hall of Fame: Georgia O’Keeffe,” Vanity Fair 22:5 (July 1924), 49 (ill., untitled)

Inscription

by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: Portrait of Georgia / no. 1. 1923

by later hand, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 162E = OK 509B

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1980.

Exhibition History

2002

Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 2–September 2, 2002; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 6, 2002–January 5, 2003

Bibliography

1991

Peters, Sarah Whitaker. Becoming O'Keeffe: The Early Years. New York, 1991: pl. 126.

2002

Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 920.

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